"Information will just all be basically free, so there's no money to be made in journalism," says de Nevers, an 18-year-old from Portland, Ore. "As much as I would like to pursue my love and all that, I like food, too. And I just don't want to sacrifice it all."

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It's kind of like saying, "I want to eat, but I know someone else will cook the food."
What happens when there's no one left to cook/gather information? How "free" will information be then?

If you play your cards right, you could get the cubicle next to the sex columnist. That could be cool if you can handle the threat of disease.

Other than that, I'd have to agree with this take. And yet J-schools have record enrollments. Go figure.

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How many j-schools or communication degrees have admissions requirements besides those for the school in general? Mine didn't, so a lot of people who just wanted to string out their college years would major in communications.

"Information will just all be basically free, so there's no money to be made in journalism," says de Nevers, an 18-year-old from Portland, Ore. "As much as I would like to pursue my love and all that, I like food, too. And I just don't want to sacrifice it all."

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It's kind of like saying, "I want to eat, but I know someone else will cook the food."
What happens when there's no one left to cook/gather information? How "free" will information be then?

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And that's why I think print journalism will survive The Great Decline. People are still going to want to read something, but the format may vary (iPad, phone, actual dead trees). It's up to journalists to tailor their stories to best fit the platform from which readers are consuming and produce a quality product. Plenty of print products will die, but there will be some that survive. There are plenty of cities that don't deserve to have a local newspaper. But there are some putting together a quality product.

"Information will just all be basically free, so there's no money to be made in journalism," says de Nevers, an 18-year-old from Portland, Ore. "As much as I would like to pursue my love and all that, I like food, too. And I just don't want to sacrifice it all."

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It's kind of like saying, "I want to eat, but I know someone else will cook the food."
What happens when there's no one left to cook/gather information? How "free" will information be then?

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There are people producing information for free all over the internet right now.

"Information will just all be basically free, so there's no money to be made in journalism," says de Nevers, an 18-year-old from Portland, Ore. "As much as I would like to pursue my love and all that, I like food, too. And I just don't want to sacrifice it all."

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It's kind of like saying, "I want to eat, but I know someone else will cook the food."
What happens when there's no one left to cook/gather information? How "free" will information be then?

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There are people producing information for free all over the internet right now.

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Mostly they are producing opinions, though. Different animal. People will still pay for (essential) information. They won't pay for opinions, which have been insanely devalued.

Again: No one should major in journalism. It shouldn't even be a major. If I were running a university, I would offer journalism as some sort of adjunct to certain majors. Something like, "BA in Engineering with an additional concentration in Science & Technology journalism."

The late '80s and early '90s -- a period when JOAs were wiping out two-paper town, unions were getting busted, and eager and ever-abundant J-school grads were stepping over bodies to work for less -- was the beginning of the end.